How to Disable Nginx Logs on Your Server

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Nginx Web Server is one of the two most broadly utilized web servers on the planet. It has been rigid to his position from the past fifteen years as a perfect web server application.

Nginx is a web server that focuses on performance and low memory usage. It is as of now one of the fastest-growing web servers.

Nginx is known for its predominant exhibition, which is generally 2.5 times faster than its competitor  Apache. It is the best ideal for websites that handles a large number of static assets. yet can also be utilized for general-purpose or normal websites. It has outgrown its expected utilization quite a while back and is currently utilized for plenty of tasks like media streaming, reverses proxying, caching, etc.

About Nginx

Nginx web server is also commonly known as Engine X and it has diverse use in the recent web applications. It is so diverse that it can be helpful to power a wide range of web services like cloud computing, microservices, etc.

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All you need to know about Nginx!

It is necessary for you to clear your basics about Nginx before you proceed further to the technical side. 

There are different variations of Nginx, one is paid and free version. But the most used version of Ngnix by developers is Open source Nginx server, it offers almost everything that a developer is looking for without any price.

Once you have installed Nginx, you can run sudo service Nginx start to initiate your server.

If you wish to learn how to install Nginx on your Ubuntu server, you can go through this tutorial.

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Sometimes you might get a large number of warnings in your Nginx logs. These warnings might not be affecting your site but the sheer number of them might be increasing your total server disk usage, or if you just wish to turn off the nginx logs for any other reason, you can do so as follows :

Open the 'nginx.conf' file (usually located : /etc/nginx folder) or the Nginx config file for a particular site, for which you wish to turn off nginx logs (usually located in : /etc/nginx/sites-available folder).

Find the line :

error_log    /var/log/nginx/error.log;

Some people simply change the line to the following :

error_log    off;

Please note that this will not stop the nginx logs from being created on the server. This will just create the logs in : '/usr/share/nginx/off' file.

If you wish to turn off the Nginx error logs completely, you need to change the line to :

error_log   /dev/null   crit;

This will completely turn off the Nginx error logs on your server.

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